{"id":1455077,"date":"2022-04-27T08:16:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455077"},"modified":"2022-04-27T08:16:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:16:59","slug":"elon-musk-took-a-victory-lap-in-conservative-mentions-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-took-a-victory-lap-in-conservative-mentions-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Took A Victory Lap In Conservative Mentions On Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-took-a-victory-lap-in-conservative-mentions-on-twitter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455077&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Elon Musk took a victory lap Tuesday in conservative Twitter mentions after he became the owner of the platform Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded to one user who reposted Musk\u2019s statement about purchasing Twitter attached to an image of non-player characters (NPC) with the dialogue bubble from the characters reading \u201cthis is extremely dangerous to our democracy.\u201d NPC is a gaming meme describing the establishment media as automatons who are programmed to follow groupthink.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan someone please give the NPCs a bigger dialogue tree!?\u201d Musk responded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Can someone please give the NPCs a bigger dialogue tree!?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1519013984879394818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Co-host of Breaking Points and former Daily Caller reporter Saagar Enjeti tweeted a screenshot of a Politico article titled, \u201cTwitter\u2019s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/incredibly-inappropriate-musk-twitter-suspending-new-york-post-hunter-biden-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enjeti<\/a> wrote \u201cVijaya Gadde, the top censorship advocate at Twitter who famously gaslit the world on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast and censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, is very upset about the @elonmusk takeover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/joe-rogan-reacts-elon-musk-buying-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Musk<\/a> then chimed in. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/msnbc-ari-melber-worries-twitter-censor-political-candidates-parties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Watch MSNBC Host Realize Live On Air What Conservatives Have Known For Years)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1519073003933515776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/21\/new-york-post-locked-out-twitter-account-7-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">locked<\/a> The New York Post out of its account for more than a week after the outlet published an article about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop. The story exposed emails showing Hunter Biden and his father, President Joe Biden, met with an executive from the Ukrainian gas company Burisma in 2015. Twitter immediately began censoring the story and preventing users from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/25\/tucker-carlson-returns-twitter-censored\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeting<\/a> the link or sending it via direct private message.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/shaun-king-allegedly-deleted-twitter-account-after-elon-musk-twitter-meltdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Musk<\/a> also issued a tweet Tuesday criticizing some negative reactions he\u2019s received since buying <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/former-ceo-jack-dorsey-elon-musk-twitter-buyout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all,\u201d Musk tweeted. \u201cBy \u2018free speech\u2019, I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">By \u201cfree speech\u201d, I simply mean that which matches the law.<\/p>\n<p>I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.<\/p>\n<p>If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1519036983137509376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk purchased Twitter for $43.4 billion following his vow to prioritize free speech on the platform. In a statement Monday, Musk called free speech \u201cthe bedrock of a functioning democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFree speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/25\/twitter-sells-elon-musk-purchase-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Musk<\/a> said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk took a victory lap Tuesday in conservative Twitter mentions after he became the owner of the platform Monday.Musk responded to one user who reposted Musk\u2019s statement about purchasing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":1480642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}